Sentences with phrase «majority government in»

All over, bar the shouting: Shawn Graham's Liberal party will form a majority government in New Brunswick after taking 29 out of 55 constituencies and leaving the Tories with 26 seats.

With their defeat, the majority government in place has had the ability to attempt reforms in the area of citizenship that were mentioned during the campaign (but not the official platforms).

However, given the Liberal Party holds a majority government in the house, it appears likely that the changes will ultimately be adopted and implemented.

With polling experts saying that Labour has only a 1 per cent chance of forming a majority Government in its own right, the SNP's support is likely to be vital in passing any Budget drawn up by a Miliband administration.

The CDU - CSU won an outright majority — to date, the only time a German party has been elected to a majority government in a free election (the CDU and CSU sit as a single bloc in the Bundestag).

Although the Greens, like UKIP, have no realistic prospect of forming a majority government in May, they have fallen into the trap of accepting the burden of proof expected of the main parties who do hope to.

At the time of Boisclair's election, the PQ was as much as 20 percent ahead of the Liberals in opinion polls, suggesting that Boisclair would lead them to a landslide majority government in the next election.

In the 2005 general election, Labour was re-elected for a third term, but with a reduced majority of 66 and popular vote of only 35.2 %, the lowest percentage of any majority government in British history.

All the signs are that Labour can form a majority government in 2015.

The election of the Conservative majority government in May 2015 very quickly signalled that reforms related to party funding would be attempted, not as a comprehensive attempt at reform, but with possibly far reaching consequences for some parties.

Expect endless stories about the Conservative leadership — articles which arguably distract from what the Tories will be getting up to in their first majority government in many young voters» lives.

In America's Forbes Magazine this week, Alejandro Chafuen praised the leadership of the conservative policy think - tanks that helped set the stage for the election of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative majority government in 2011 and the success of conservative politicians across the country.

The polls had only closed for 22 minutes when the news channels began declaring that the long in the tooth Progressive Conservatives would form another majority government in Alberta.

When the Conservatives finally achieved majority government in 2011, they ensured that more committee meetings would be held in camera — away from the public's prying eyes.

Kenney says vote splitting leveraged Premier Rachel Notley's NDP to majority government in the 2015 election, and only a united conservative party can prevent a repeat in 2019.

Kinsella later accepted blame for the defeat, the party's first time without a majority government in the province in 42 years.

When he landed in Vancouver, Canada last month he was treated like a rock star by thousands of South Asians clamoring for just a peek at the man leading India's first majority government in 30 years.

Not exact matches

Out of a total population of around 32.5 million people, the majority are in their mid-30s or younger, according to government data.

And because the majority of Eritrean youths were now conscripted in the National Service, any business requiring their labour had to effectively rent them from the government.

«Macron has tried to strike a fine political balance to maximize his chances of building a majority, while making sure the new government has enough competent figures to launch reforms,» Antonio Barroso, deputy director of research at Teneo Intelligence, said in a note.

While approval is not a given since the ruling coalition government led by Abe's LDP does not have a majority in the upper house of parliament, most analysts do not foresee any problems given signs this week that main opposition parties will not block the nominations.

September 16 — As many as 30,000 Malaysians, the majority of whom are from the Malay community, march through Kuala Lumpur in a show of support for the government.

The ongoing dispute between so - called Remainers and Brexiteers about this relationship took another turn last week when a majority of the U.K.'s House of Lords — the upper house of parliament — voted that the U.K. should stay in a customs union with the EU, something the government under Prime Minister Theresa May has said would not happen.

The motion, a broadly worded declaration of support for foreign policy, received 158 votes in favor, below the necessary majority of 160 votes and was followed by a chorus of opposition calls for the government to «quit, quit, quit».

When insurance companies demutualized in the 1990s, the government legislated that companies with more than $ 5 billion in capital had to be widely held, thereby preventing a majority takeover.

Portugal's minority center - right government collapsed this week after the three leftist parties that won the majority of seats in September month's general election refused to support its continuation of bailout - dictated austerity policies.

«The coalition that allowed a majority to form government in March 1933 might not have been able to form had fiscal policy been more expansionary,» the researchers wrote.

It comes with the Government under pressure after losing its House of Commons majority in the general election as Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity Labour outperformed expectations.

Controversy around the deal prompted the Conservative government to implement restrictions on state - owned enterprises acquiring majority stakes in Canadian companies.

The 125 CEOs who participated in the survey were asked to compare a hypothetical majority government under Conservative leader Stephen Harper to one led by Liberal Stéphane Dion.

But both the committee and the government are under pressure to resolve the issue sooner with a free vote in the legislature which, given the governing Liberals» slim majority, would likely doom the tax.

It's politically risky for the federal government to ride roughshod over state laws voted in by a majority of the people, says William McGrath, a partner at the Washington, D.C. - based Potomac Law Group.

Changes to superannuation policy played a role in the significantly reduced majority for the Turnbull government at the July 2 election, but if you look a little deeper you find something far more interesting — the government can't afford its retirement policies, and some retired people can't afford to live.

This sentiment was reflected elsewhere; a Nanos research survey showed 48 % of Canadians felt the country was headed in the right direction and a healthy majority believed Harper's government was doing an average job, at least.

«Everything would have been very difficult... but luckily a majority decided to change and overcome the resignation they wanted to put on us,» Macri added, in what appeared to be a critical reference to Kirchner's government and supporters.

Small and medium companies across the country that have contracts with the prime (think of a parts manufacturer for a car or airplane company) or with the government are eligible in the vast majority of cases.

The Conservative government's first efforts to pass it in the last parliament were frustrated by its Liberal Democrat coalition partners, but the bill has been revived in a slightly watered - down version since the Conservatives won a majority in May's general elections.

«Although we expect that the Greek government will implement the required measures, the risk of early elections is increasing given the rising political cost to the government and its slim majority in the parliament... Early elections might bring a new and more reform - minded conservative government, but Greece's economy would be hit again by prolonged uncertainty, after having just started to record positive growth,» Moody's said.

Early returns suggest a significant majority of voters in the State of Washington have approved an initiative to privatize the state's remaining government liquor stores.

The bank, which is majority - owned by the U.K. government, saw its first profit in a decade last February.

Republicans and some Wall Street analysts warn that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to blow up the filibuster on presidential nominations will lead to an even darker period of partisan acrimony, throwing into question the ability of Congress to pass a bill to fund the government past January and raise the debt limit in February.

France's Finance Minister Michel Sapin has said that he wants the newly - elected President Emmanuel Macron to succeed and win a majority in the country's upcoming parliamentary election, though he insisted a cohabitation government would not hamper the country's prospects.

Despite the fact that the vast majority of the company's $ 85 million in revenue depends on government funding, Virts - Mozer is confident that her firm will make it through the shutdown just fine.

Government lending data reviewed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting shows the companies direct their lending toward white borrowers and white neighborhoods, even in metros like Philadelphia where a majority of residents are people of color.

No group managed to secure a majority in the Italian parliament, heralding weeks of political uncertainty and raising the prospect of a government between sworn enemies - the center - right led by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and the center - left under Pier Luigi Bersani.

Despite its name, RBS is currently majority - owned by the taxpayers of the entire U.K., since it needed a government bailout in 2008 to make up for bad investment decisions.

Five local companies will share in a combined $ 92 million worth of contracts awarded by the state government, with the majority of the work comprising school construction jobs.

If the Conservatives do not get a majority in this election, Canada could still get a majority government.

As Don Braid wrote in the Calgary Herald, «Alberta has become a kind of social laboratory, unique in North America, to test whether a near - majority of women in a government caucus makes a change in style and substance.

So they forced an election they couldn't possibly win by defeating the Conservatives on a confidence vote in Parliament — and gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper something he couldn't get without their invaluable help — a majority government with no chance of being defeated for four years.